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GOIN VENDING MAOHINE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9, 1909.

Patented Sept.'20, 1910.

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ANTHONY COSEGLIA, F WEST HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

COIN VENDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led .Tune 9, 1909.

Patented Sept. 20, 19.1.0.

serial No. 501,113.

- To all whom 'it 'may concern:

Beit known that I, ANTHONY CosiieLiA, a

. subject of the King of Italy, residing at 901 .thus pushed shifts the lever in the Malone street, West Hoboken, county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin Vending-Machines, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to a machine for vendingpackages, as of candy or other merchandise, by insertin a coin in the case; and the object of the invention is to furnish a simple and compact construction which can be cheaply manufactured and occupies but little space when in use.

The casing of the machine consists of a vertical back-plate with a cover locked removably thereon and having the packagemagazine and the operating mechanism attached to such cover.

The inventionl includes a latch pivoted at the bottom of the magazine and provided with vertical arms having lingers projected fbrward and backward at the top and bot- -tom respectively,

to retain and release the packages, and is operated by a slide-bar having an inclined end to engage the forwardly projecting nger, which when the coin is inserted and pushed down is pressed upon the said finger and shifts the atch to discharge one of the packages.

The slide-bar is actuated by a lever which stands normally in the path of the coin. coin-inlet is made in the cover and the coinslide covers such inlet when depressed. The lever has a tooth which, when the lever is pushed sidewise by the movement of the coin, engages a locking-notch upon the coinslide and holds it before the coin-inlet. The slide-bar is pushed normally upward by a spring and has a sloping head which when path of the coin and clears the hook from the locking-notch. i

The magazine is so arranged that when it is full the last coin stands adjacent to the lever and holds the tooth in the locking notch so that the coin-slide cannot be operated, nor any coin inserted in the inlet. The package when discharged falls within the bottom of the cover which has apertures in its opposite edges in which the fingers can be inserted to push the package out laterally.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the back-plate with the apparatus in operative position thereon as if detached from the cover; Fig.

2 is a similar View of the mechanism for locking the slide, with the connected portion of the magazine; Fig. 3 is a section of the cover at its center line including the coinslide and the coin-chiite with its gat-e at the bottom, and an edge view of the magazine. Fig. 4L is a vertical section at the center line with the coin-chute omitted to expose the other parts; the latch being in operation to support the packages in the magazine. Fig.

4 is a similar section at the lower end of the casing but taken close to the latch-arm o showing the slide-bar depressed to discharge one of the packages. Fig. 5 is a front view of the apparatus closed; Fig. 6 is a view like Fig. l, of the arts adjacent to the coin-slide, showing a ell-crank for actuating the slidebar;bFig. 7 is a cross section on line 7--7 in Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is a cross section on line 8--8 in Fig. 1; Fig. 9

is a cross section on line 9-9 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 10 is a cross section on line 10-10 in Fig. 1; and Fig. 11 is a cross section on line 11-11 in Fig. 1. Fig. 12 is a front View at the bottom of the magazine.

The back-plate a has a raised border b, and the cover c has a flange c fitted within such border. Pins d project inside the border at the top of the back-plate, and holes are formed in the flange at the top of the cover to engage such pins, and a lock d at the bottom of the cover then serves to hold the casing closed. A hole d2 is shown in Fig; 5 through which a key can be inserted for unlocking the cover, Ithe package f which is shown in that figure being, of course, removed before the key could be introduced.

The cover is provided with a circular coin-aperture f', and a guide g is attached to the cover behind such aperture and provided with a vertical channel to guide the coin-slide g over the aperture, and to also guide the coin into the coin-chute. A spring g8 holds the coin-slide normally raised against a stop g4, shown in Fig. 1. The coin-cliute 7L is attached to the cover by rivets h below the aperture, and is made double the thickness of the coins e so that the ive circles representing the coins in the magazine real ly indicate ten coins.

The magazine i is a rectangular tube to hold the packages f and is fastened tothe |Y cover (by studs inthe rear of the coinslide and coin-chute, both of which terminate above the bottom of the cover. at asufficient distance to discharge one of the pack.- ages, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. rlhe maga.- zine is proportioned to hold eleven packages corresponding to the total number of coins which can be accommodated in the chute and guide g.

A gate to close the bottom of the coinslide is shown as a crossbar L having arms Zr pivotedupon the opposite edges of the magazine, which arms are made wide enough at their lower ends to cont-act with the backplate' a. when the cover is closed, and thus hold the crossbar beneath the coin-chute, as shown in Figs. 8 and ll. When the cover with the attached parts is removed from the back-plate this gate can be swung backward and the coinsdropped out of the coinchute.

A slide-bar Z is attached to the front of the magazine at the side of the coin-chute, and a spring Z presses the same normally upward, the spring resting upon a stud' Z2 attached to the magazine.

rPhe top of the slide has a sloping head Z3, and a lever n' is pivoted upon the maga.- zine with itsy lower end adjacent to such sloping head and carrying a roll e which stands inthe path of the coin e when first inserted in the coin-aperture f.

The coin-slide is provided with a thumbpiece g2 projecting through a slot m by which the slide can be pushed down. The coin is lguided in the channel g during such downward movement and forces the roll and lever laterally.

A roll n" upon the lever engages the sloping-head Z3 of the slide-barv and forces the same downward, as shown in Fig. 2, in op position to the spring Z. Such downward movement actuates the latch of the magazine which is pivoted upon the bottom of the magazine, as shown. in Figs. l` and l2, and consists of a crossbar ohaving vertical arms 0 at `its opposite ends and pivoted upon the magazine by pins p. The'arms are provided at 'the bottom with backwardly projecting fingers g which normally support the packages in the magazine, as shown in Figs. 4 and 10, and are pressed normally beneath the packages by a spring p. The arms are provided at the top with forwardly projecting lingers g, one of which is engaged with an inclined tongue r upon the bot'tom of the slidebar when the slide-bar is pushed downward by the rolla. Such position of the slide-bar is shown in Fig. 4a, which pushes the lingers g backwardly and dislodges one of the packages from the magazine and allows it to drop into the bottom of the cover, as shown at f. in Figs. l and 4. The position of the slide-bar whenY thus depressed is indicated in Fig. 2, with the coin on a level with the roll e; but the coin does not remain in such position but is pushed: below the roll by the coin-slidev and drops into the chute Z1., which permits the spring Z to force the slide-bar upward and crowd the lever n with the roll e into the channel of the coin-slide. An arm n is formed upon the upper end of this lever and provided with a tooth n2 adjacent to the edge of the coin-slide, and a notch s is formed` in the slide, which the tooth engages whenv the slide is all the Way down and the lever'n pushed laterally by the coin.

The lever n is uncontrolled by any spring and the tooth would thus remain in the locking-'notch and prevent the slide from lifting, if-the lever were not shifted by the sloping head Z3 ofthe latch-bar after each movement of the coin-slide.

The filling of the coin-chute prevents the eleventh coin from clearing the roll e but compels it to remain in the position shown in'Fig. 2, so that when the packages areeX- haustedy and-the coin-chute'is full, the'coinslide is locked and 'the aperture f is closed. So long as thecoins are pushed past the roll e by the coin-slide, they leave the lever'n. free to swing inwardly, which. is effected by the risingA of the slide-barfZ which unlocks the coin-slide and permits ,its spring to raise it clear of the coin-aperture.

A modification of the connection between thecoin and the slide-bar, which operates in all respects thesame as that in'Fig. 1, is shown in Fig. 6, where the lower endof the lever adjacent 'to the path of they coin is lettered r1.3 and is unprovided with any rolls.

The leveris actuated'by a roll ezupon a bellcrank u pivoted by a pin t upon the. magazine z'. The lower arm of the bell-crank carries a head u" litted to a notch u inthe slide-bar Z, thus causing' 'the descent of the slide-bar when the coin is pressed. downward past the roll e2'. The roll e2 bearsat its outer sideA against the taily of the lever n3 and forces it outwardly against the sloping head Z3 of the slide-bar as the latter descends. Such movement of the lever carries it into the position shown in dotted linesin Fig. 6, with the .locking-tooth fn? in the notch s upon the slide-bar, as with theconstruction shown in Fig. l. When the slide-bar is released'by the passage ofthe coin, itis free to rise and its sloping head which then stands a little below the end of the lever n3, (which is represented in dotted lines) operates to push the lever laterally andretract'A the tooth from the locking-notch s.

The rolls e, e2 and. n are provided only to reduce friction, and the par'ts may be 'shaped to operate by direct cont-act, if. desired.

The pivots p for the latch-arms o lie in front of the magazine, and to bring the arms within thegfmagazine, when turned, they are attached tothe rear sides of the crossbar o, as shown in Figs. 4 and 12.

A tongue p2 extends downward upon the front of the magazine between the arms o', to act as a stripper for the package f when the fingers g are drawn backwardly, as shown in Fig. 4, thus freeing the fingers from the package and permitting it to drop into the bottom of the cover.

To prevent accidental displacement of the bottom package by jarring, the rear side of the magazine is made to slightly overlap the top of of such package, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, so that it is held securely upon the .tongue g until the latch is actuated.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention what is claimed herein is:

1. In a vending machine, the combination, with a vertical case, of a magazine having a latch pivoted at the bottom with finger projected forwardly, a slide-bar mounted movably upon the magazine with inclined end or tongue to engage such finger when releasing the packages, and meansfor actuating the slide-bar and the pivot-latch to release a package.

2. In a vending machine, the combination,

with a vertical case, of a magazine having a latch pivoted at the bottom with fingers projected forward and backward upon its upper and lower ends respectivel a spring for holding the lower finger in the path of the packages, a slide-bar mounted movably upon the machine with inclined end to engage the forwardly projecting finger, and means for actuating the slide-bar and the pivoted latch to release a package. y

3. In a vending machine, the combination, with a vertical case, of a magazine having a latch pivoted at the bottom with vertical arms o at its opposite ends connected by a cross-bar o, means for turning the latch, the pivots p upon the front of the magazine for the latch-arms o and the tongue 712 extended downward upon the front of the magazine between the latch-arms to act as a stripper for the package f when the latch is turned.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANTHONY COSEGLIA. Witnesses:

L. LEE, THOMAS S. CRANE. 

